A Teaspoon of Sugar Won't Help

                   Deficit, unemployment, three wars, gas prices, inflation, recession/depression, career politicians, all these plus so many more symptoms add up to one sick nation.  I would like to lay the blame at Obama's feet but these things have been festering for years.  Now, just like someone who feels unwell but ignores the symptoms until treatment is far more intensive and invasive than would have been necessary earlier, we must face the truth of our diagnosis. America is very sick and without radical intervention cannot survive. The political players and policy makers have for years sought their own interests rather than those of our nation. We trusted them, albeit only by a thread, and that trust has been betrayed, repeatedly.

The media can spin all they want, I know that in my family, things are worse not better than when Obama took office. Our home has lost 20% of it's market value since we purchased it in '06(most of that since our last appraisal- just after Obama took office). We can't afford family vacations because gas has eaten more and more of our discretionary spending money. The cost of groceries is taking a toll on our income too,  a gallon of milk is $4 and we go through three gallons on a good week. I am not saying that we are suffering; there are those struggling far more than we do to meet ends and my husband's job in the power industry has so far been safe. We are blessed. Nevertheless, I recognize the downward trend in a real way.

 The time for preventative measures has long passed, now we must take a dose of our collective medicine. It's funny to use a healthcare analogy since the Obamacare bill is one of the biggest mistakes in recent history(my opinion) but we can all relate to a doctor visit. When the doc gives you a prescription you expect it to make you better eventually even though sometimes the medicine has serious side effects.  As people who long to stay alive, we understand that and take the medicine despite the possibility of unpleasant risks and  I believe that the citizens of our country want this nation to continue to  live and thrive. We can take the "medicine" if it works to cure us, we just no longer want it masking the symptoms. I believe Americans are smarter than politicians and media think so, tell us the truth, give us our treatment options and get on with it. In spite of  what Mary Poppins might sing, no amount of sugar is going to help this medicine go down.